Women in Serbia are still the most unsafe in their own homes. In 24 hours, there were two incidents in the country femicide.
In Bajana Bašta, a man killed his ex-wife and their child, and then committed suicide. As the locals said, the murdered woman had previously reported that she had suffered violence from her husband at the time. The Center for Social Work also intervened.
Another femicide took place in the vicinity of Niš. An elderly man was arrested on suspicion of having committed the murder. It is suspected that he killed his wife, and he has been detained, after which he will be questioned before the senior public prosecutor along with the criminal complaint. The police announced that it is suspected that he killed his seventy-four-year-old wife with a knife in the morning in the vicinity of Niš.
Due to the tragedy in the village near Bajina Bašta, the president of the municipality decided to declare July 22 as a day of mourning in that territory.
"These are situations that never happen suddenly, because these are situations in which the women who were killed suffered violence for months, even years, and often this violence was reported. However, due to the inadequate response of the institutions, because they did not react quickly enough and efficiently enough, we have these consequences," said the deputy director of the Safe House in Belgrade, Mina Grašić, for RTS.
Increasingly monstrous numbers
From the Safe House, they state that if the statistics of the murder of women continue, by the end of the year there may be a greater number of femicides than in 2024. In the last ten years, more than 300 femicides have been recorded, according to data from the Autonomous Women's Center. Most of them were killed in their home, where they lived alone or with their partners.
In relation to the number of inhabitants, Serbia records three times more murders of women than Italy and twice as many cases as neighboring Croatia.
What is femicide?
The World Health Organization defines femicide as "the killing of women because they are women," and the UN defines it as "the gender-related killing of women and girls."
Some countries have adopted specific laws that criminalize femicide, while in many other countries the word is not widely used, but is increasingly accepted by activists fighting gender-based violence.
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